LEPT e-bulletin – May 2020

Welcome to the LEPT e-bulletin!

SPOTLIGHT ON

This e-bulletin will provide you with a number of links to organisations that have been compiling transport and mobility responses to the Covid-19 crisis. You’ll find most of them in the “What LEPT is reading” section.

EU FUNDING & LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

Funding opportunities

LIFE - Climate change and environment call for funding The EU’s climate and environment funding programme currently has open calls for proposals. The deadlines have been extended one month. The climate change programme has three sections: adaptation, mitigation and governance & information. Additional information on the programme is available online.

Call for speakers

Polis Conference 2020 This year’s Annual Polis Conference will be taking place in Arnhem-Nijmegen (The Netherlands) on 2-3 December 2020. The network has issued a call for contributions with a deadline to submit your proposal by 25 May 2020. Mobility governance, road safety, active travel are just some of the subjects but abstracts are welcome on a number of transport and mobility topics.

Learning opportunities

CIVITAS ReVeAL webinar “ReVeALing Space for People: Developing Good Practice in Urban Vehicle Access Regulations” – 26 May 2020 A webinar that will look into access regulation measures, what factors play a role in successfully implementing those and look at the Ghent case study. It will take place at 5pm CET (4pm BST).

EUROCITIES webinar – Social cost benefit analysis, how does it work – 26 May 2020 This event will look into social cost benefit analysis with insights from the CIVITAS Handshake project that focuses on cycling. It will take place at 11am CEST (10am BST).

eHUBS webinar - eHUBS: What are they and how do they connect different modes in a MaaS landscape? – 29 May 2020 This event will look into shared and electric mobility hubs that have been deployed as part of the eHUBS project. It will take place at 11am CET (10am BST).

Polis webinar - Parking matters: current and future measures in times of COVID-19 – 2 June 2020 A discussion session that will look into parking policies and Covid-19. Please note that this event is for Polis members only.

COVID-19 Webinar: Impacts on Transport Emissions and Air Quality - 18 June 2020 This webinar will look at the impact of Covid-19 on transport and air quality. It will take place from 2 to 3.30pm. NEWS

London boroughs act to facilitate social distancing Boroughs have been very active since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. Regarding traffic and transport, a number of them have been putting in place measures to respond to the crisis, such as widening the pavements in Hammersmith and Fulham or Camden, publishing transport strategy responses such as Lambeth and many more.

Mayor unveils plan for transforming London’s streets The Mayor of London and TfL announced in early May their new plan for the streets of the capital, Streetspace. The plan includes the construction of a strategic cycle network, wider footways and traffic reduction on residential streets. Additional information on some of the plan’s detail and car-free zones announcement is available here.

City region transport operators set out their demands for national government In a regularly updated briefing the Urban Transport Group (the UK network for city region transport authorities) set out their demands to national government to support a progressive ease of the lockdown (version updated on 11/05 when this was written).

£2 billion package announced by the Department for Transport for cycling and walking The announcement was made on 9 May and comes alongside guidance for local authorities to reallocate road space.

WHAT LEPT IS READING

COVID-19 Transport Resources. Keeping things moving – ICLEI ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability has put together resources on a number of topics amongst which transport. Examples include cities in India, South Korea or Bangladesh.

Making Safe Space for Cycling in 10 Days: A Guide to Temporary bike lanes from Berlin – MOBYCON Berlin was one of the first cities to introduce the now widespread temporary bikes lanes to enable social distance whilst cycling and prioritise low-carbon modes in urban spaces.

COVID-19 Transport Brief. Re-spacing Our Cities For Resilience – International Transport Forum The OECD’s International Transport Forum (ITF) makes the case for space re-allocation in cities to enable the necessary physical distancing. It highlights examples of cities that have already done this, whilst giving advice on how to optimise the creation of the temporary space by keeping in mind long-term objectives or monitoring the use.

The Guardian view on Covid-19 and transport: walk to the future – The Guardian An opinion editorial from 21 April 2020 in the Guardian advocating for enhanced space for sustainable modes. Since then, measures that support some of the suggestions have been announced.

Covid-19 pandemic: resuming public transport services post-lockdown - UITP A briefing presenting ten challenges identified by the UITP for the public transport sector. Liability, demand management, masks or financial and institutions support are among the looked at topics.

Ten recommendations to stimulate the uptake of shared electric mobility hubs – eHUBS project These recommendations were drawn up by one of the Interreg North-West Europe project eHUBS, using insights from behavioural psychology. EVENTS ATTENDED

In April and May, the LEPT team attended webinars organised by the Polis team on European cities and regions responses to the Coronavirus crisis. Summaries of these can be found on the Polis website.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Please note that due to the spread of Covid-19, events are currently being cancelled, rescheduled or held as online only meetings. Some available webinars are outlined above.